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Multiple Business accounts with the same email+2 Business accounts on the desktop.
I need multiple drop box teams for different customers. It is not practical for everyone to create multiple e-mail addresses for each dropbox. Is there a solution for one person to be on different teams without having multiple e-mail addresses?
Has there been any development, or is there any planned development, to allow multiple Dropbox business accounts on one PC? It's easy enough to switch between personal and business, but why can't a second or third business account be added? Many people I'm sure work for more than one company and need ability to have offline access to both companie's shared files and folders. It is not practical to have separate Windows user profiles just for this, and the workarounds just don't work for me.
For my situation I may end up ditching Dropbox for one of the businesses (my one) and using Egnyte instead.
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I cant fix the one email per dropbox account, but I dont honestly think that is a big concern. Just use Gmail accounts and name them accordingly.
Here is how to have multiple Bussiness accounts runing at the same time on Windows 10.
1) Create a common place for the dropbox folders to be placed say C:\DB ensure the permissions on this folder are set to full access EVERYONE or to the set of windows users you are going to use. So creating your dropbox here will make C:\DB\Dropbox (ComapnyName) or something like that. You have to select the location C:\DB at install time or use the move function if already installed.
2) Next you must create a window user for every additional dropbox account you want.
3) Setup the Additional dropbox account in the additional windows user account. Set the base folder to C:\DB and it will add C:\DB\Dropbox (2ndCompanyName). Set this additional dropbox account to NOT START automaticly.
4) return to your primary windows user account, right click the start button and select RUN then enter "shell:startup" this opens a File Expolrer in your user Startup folder
5) in the Startup folder right click and select NEW shortcut, then in the shortcut address field (1st one) paste the following
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:TheAdditionalWindowUsername "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe"
* TheAdditionalWindowUsername is the name of the additional windows username not the string litteral "TheAdditionalWindowUsername"
6) Run the shortcut, the first time it runs it will ask you for the password of the windows user specified, supply it and it saves it for auto start next time.
Thats it, the other windows user Dropbox will start and sync files while your in your main windows user account. runas.exe does just as its named, runs something as another user but in your user login.
The Special file explorer menu for the dropbox folders will not appear for the other accounts so favorite them to the top of the explorer list, remember all the folders are in C:\DB
* I have used this approach for the last 5 years *
- Will something similar work for Mac OS too?
I would expect so, but I cant help you with it as I dont use mac's
- Server_Align: Thank you for your post. So, if I read it right, 1. We would create a second Windows User Account on each PC and add the Dropbox Company2 Account to this, 2. There would never actually be any need to log into this second Windows User Account as the files from both Dropbox Company1 and Company2 Accounts will be auto-synced in the C:\DB\ folder? Thanks!
Into folders in the C:\DB folder.
And that of course was just my exampled location, if you feel confident enough go to the %userprofile% folder of user1, create a "Dropbox (company2)" folder to act as the folder for user2's dropbox, permission it for both users to have access, then setup user2 and point it to the %userprofile% folder of user1
* issue with that might come up with permissions on the %userprofile% folder of user1 so that might need permissioning as well, and kinda hides whats hapepning a bit so Im against that *
* "Dropbox (company2)" is what ever the second dropbox account actually names the folder, its been a while since I had a Bussiness account, as we only ever used one of the five accounts anyway and just had it for the >1TB space, now Pro has 3TB.
- This feature is an absolute must!
Hoping for an update on accessing two business accounts on my Mac Desktop. It's been a little over a year since my last inquiry. Anything new on that front. I really don't want to switch from Dropbox. Thanks!
Advice please.
I had a business account I set up almost three years ago when my company was just starting up. I used my business email so it would be congruent to my clients. Since then our company has grown and they have purchased a company business account. I was given access to that account but because my email is still tied to my original account the system is insisting I renew my membership before I can grant access for clients to upload files. Please help me navigate this hurtle.
I am more than happy to change my original account over to my personal email but I’m afraid if I do it may cause all kinds of other issues with my companies account This issue growing more urgent by the minute as I have clients needing to upload files. Does anyone know how to fix this dueling account issue?
